PEANUTS Sad Song Redux

 I redrew this classic PEANUTS comic strip by Charles Schulz from March 5, 1953. The original strip had no backgrounds, so I added Violet's living room based on elements from other strips of the era. 

Black Light Batgirl #1

 

Barcade Punk-Man Tee-Shirt

 Here's the latest tee-shirt design I did for Barcade... if you wanna see how the sausage is made, click on over to Tough Guy II (see right) for a more detailed post on this piece. And order this limited edition shirt here! 

Spidey Covers Redux... Again!

 More Spider-Man cover recreations, this time tackling AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #9 after Steve Ditko and #121 after John Romita. The cover of #9 was really text heavy, so I adjusted the main image to take up more space and altered some of the text, omitting one blurb and moving other lettering around. 

Secret Country: To Heck with Ole Santa Claus

If there's anything I love more than doing art for Secret Country, it's doing another Secret Country Christmas single! This year, Kearny's finest has given us a cover of Loretta Lynn's ass-kickin' 1966 anti-carol, "To Heck with Ole Santa Claus!" Go give it a spin (if you can call streaming something online "spinning." 

 

Prince Street News: Holiday Grab-Bag!

 The new BACK ISSUE Magazine (#140) is all about dinosaur comics... what better issue for my second Christmas installment of PRINCE STREET NEWS? Okay, so this one doesn't fit the theme... at all!... but it is out now, in December, so... seasonal! 

Anyway, this is another one of those strips where most of the gags are for the longbox set, but thanks to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, you can now make jokes about Ant-Man! As always, if you have any questions, feel free to post them in the comments, I'll do my best to explain why all of this is COMEDY GOLD! 

I've posted a few of the elements from this strip separately below to give more detail. See, Ms. Marvel's belly cutout is a Christmas tree! Get it? 

Good Lord! choke!

Done for the EC Comics Instagram Page's Inktober challenge, my take on the classic EC horror hosts (and friends)... 

 

My Favorite Monsters

 I did this series of some of my favorite movie monsters (et al) for an upcoming art show, NERD ALERT II (co-hosted with my pal, Matt Caputo)... From the top: the xenomorph from Ridley Scott's 1979 masterpiece, ALIEN, Norma Bates from Alfred Hitchcock's PSYCHO (1960, oh also, SPOILER ALERT!), the Bride from James Whale's THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935), Good ol' Brucie from Steven Spielberg's JAWS (1975), Count Orlok from F.W. Murnau's NOSFERATU (1922, a hundred goddamn years ago!!), and finally the demon Pazuzu from William Friedkin's THE EXORCIST (1973). 

The Alien piece is sold already, the others (they measure 3.5 x 5") will be available at the NERD ALERT II show (at the PS Wine Bar at Pet Shop in Jersey City, running November 4-6 only!), and whatever doesn't sell will be going up on the Etsy shop after that. 

Spidey Again!

 Three more Spider-Man commissions, this time AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #21 (after Steve Ditko), ASM #148 (after Gil Kane & John Romita), and MARVEL TREASURY EDITION #1 (after Romita). 

GALACTUS (again!)

 After the great Jack Kirby (duh). Done in fluorescent inks. 

The Beatles Colorforms Redux

 

The Spectre Burst

 

Comic Book Tattoos Wrapper Redux

 

World's Finest #36 Redux

 Commissioned for a friend, a few changes from the Winslow Mortimer original (mostly, I took off the heroes' boots because even a superhero has to surf barefoot! Capes are one thing, boots another! 

Prince Street News: Stuff I Miss

The new BACK ISSUE (#135, June 2022) is the SILVER ISSUE, spotlighting the Silver Surfer in the Bronze Age. My Prince Street News in this issue is another in a recent series of strips that don't tie in to the theme of the issue (it's also the second one-page installment, something that will happen now and then). Rather, I wanted to post an ode to elements of comic books that are now sadly extinct. Yeah, yeah, old man yells at cloud, I know. 

Coming Next! It's another Christmas-themed episode! 

LAUGH-IN Wrapper Redux

 

More Mighty Marvel Cover Recreations

 More Marvel cover redux commissions, mixing it up with some Fantastic Four this time!  The cover of AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #38 features some radical alterations to the original. Perhaps having to do with this being Steve Ditko's final issue of Spidey, he did not create an original cover for the comic book, instead Marvel cobbled together images from the interior artwork and added a lot of lettering. While the main image is certainly dynamic enough for a cover, the three panels at the bottom felt kind of randomly chosen (I'll place the original cover for comparison) so I found the full comic book online and chose three different panels I felt were more worthy of cover placement. 
John Romita's cover to AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #62 (introducing Medusa) has always been one of my favorites, so it was super fun to redraw this one. Medusa's green-and-orange color scheme compelled me to color it using fluorescent inks, making this another modern Third-Eye tribute. 
Finally, the cover to FANTASTIC FOUR #86, which was also so much fun to do because Jack Kirby's ridiculous genius always smacks you in the face when you have to try to draw it. Try it! It's fun! 

Still More Spidey Recreations!

Another batch of Spider-Man commissions for my pal Al, this round special because it was the storyline begun in AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #144 ("The Delusion Conspiracy!") that cemented our friendship back in Elementary School! The ad for SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN #1 is after John Romita, as is the cover of ASM #141 while 144 is after Gil Kane & Romita, my all-time favorite Spider-Man art team. 

Peanuts #10 Cover Redux

My friend Elisa commissioned me to redo the cover to Dell Comics' PEANUTS #10, originally by Charles Schulz. I added Violet and a background to the original and changed some of the trade dress. Sorry, Sparky! 

 

Yellow Submarine

 I did this piece as a birthday gift for my friend, John. I combined elements from four different sources and the background is in fluorescent inks (which you can't tell, but I swear it's true!).